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I am using Xamarin.Android (IDE: Visual Studio 2015) and would like to work with the new Data Binding Library from Google. Is it possible (and how)? Or is the Data Binding Library only available in Android Studio??
https://developer.android.com/tools/data-binding/guide.html
Felix
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Data binding is the technique of linking properties of two objects so that changes in one property are automatically reflected in the other property. Data binding is an integral part of the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) application architecture.
The Data Binding Library is a support library that allows you to bind UI components in your layouts to data sources in your app using a declarative format rather than programmatically. Layouts are often defined in activities with code that calls UI framework methods.
The one and only function of View Binding is to bind the views in the code, while Data Binding offers some more options like Binding Expressions, which allows us to write expressions the connect variables to the views in the layout.
The data-binding library is actually part of the gradle build toolkit so isn't available in Xamarin.Android applications. However there are plenty of data binding frameworks out there. MVVMLight, MVVMCross, Bind, etc.
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